Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, author, television personality, and food critic with a net worth of $220 million.
As a reality television personality, Ramsay is well-known for his caustic demeanour, blazing temper, and frequent use of profanity. He regularly criticizes the culinary skills of the competitors.
Big-hearted chef Gordon Ramsay is known for his “to-die-for” dishes. Those who can afford a dinner at one of his many restaurants and secure a seat claim as much, at least.
His many cooking competition shows have elevated him to a household name in places where his food is unavailable.
His propensity to verbally abuse everyone within eight feet of him in the kitchen has elevated him from a household name to legendary status.
Who is Gordon Ramsay?
On November 8, 1966, Gordon Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. When he was five years old, his family moved to England, where he was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Among the four children, he is the youngest. As a child, his family moved around a lot due to his father’s aspirations and professional failures. His father was occasionally a violent drunk and whore.
When Ramsay was sixteen, he moved out of his family’s house and into an apartment of his own. As a teenager, Ramsay was a skilled football and soccer player, but injuries ended his playing career.
By now Ramsay had taken an interest in cooking. At the age of 19, he joined at North Oxfordshire’s Hotel Management program.
Gordon Ramsay age
At the moment, he is 57 years old.
Gordon Ramsay net worth
According to estimates, he is worth $220 million.
Gordon Ramsay career
In the middle of the 1980s, Ramsay worked as a commis chef at the Wroxton House Hotel. He later became the manager of the 60-seat dining room and kitchen at Wickham Arms.
After that, he moved to London and worked at several restaurants until landing a position at Harvey’s Restaurant with the notoriously temperamental chef Marco Pierre White.
After two years and ten months of employment at Harvey’s, he became disillusioned with White’s “rages, bullying, and violence.”
After deciding to study French cookery, Ramsay worked for Albert Roux and Le Gavroche in Mayfair. It was then that he met Jean-Claude Breton, who is currently his maitre d’hôtel at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. After a year, Roux hired Ramsay to work at Le Gavroche.
After a year of working as a private chef on a boat, Ramsay relocated to London and was hired by three-star chef Pierre Koffman to take the helm of La Tante Claire in Chelsea.
Soon after, Ramsay received an offer from Marco Pierre White, his former boss, to become head chef at the Rossmore (in exchange for a 10% share). He renamed the restaurant Aubergine, and 14 months later it was awarded its first Michelin star.
In 1997, Aubergine was awarded a second Michelin star. Disagreements over the route the company should go led Ramsay to end the partnership in the summer of 1998.
In the same year, Ramsay opened his own eatery, Gordon Ramsay, in the Chelsea district of London. Ramsay became the first Scot to gain a third Michelin star for the restaurant in 2001.
From then on, his empire grew rapidly. One dinner plate at a time, he conquered the world, started his US TV show “Hell’s Kitchen,” became a regular on Food Network, and opened and shuttered several well-known restaurants.
In addition to West Hollywood, California, where he owned the renowned London Hotel on Sunset Boulevard until 2015, he also owned restaurants in Dubai, Tokyo, London, New York City, Ireland, and Canada.
